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#322 – World Trade Futurity (WTF)

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  • Donald Trump is the president elect of the US. Dave (and Chris and the rest of the world) is asking “WTF?“
  • Tesla500 ponders whether NAFTA being repealed would impact sales of a device from a Canadian to the US.
  • Chris has been hanging out with Tony from adafruit who is working on MicroPython tutorials
  • Dave got a large format poster of the Spectrum printed in his latest mailbag
  • Chris got to hang out with Brent and Bryce from FaradayRF at SuperCon last weekend.
  • More about SuperCon
    • Akiba was there!
    • Alan Yates gave a talk abut the Valve LightHouse. He also talked about this on a recent episode of Embedded.fm.
    • Ken Shirriff from Righto.com
    • Steve Collins from JPL
  • Chris skipped Electronica, which is going on now.
  • Two more acquisitions
    • Qualcomm acquires NXP
    • Lattice Semi was acquired by a private capital firm.
  • Dave wrote old programs for Lattice devices. Chris started out with FPGAs using Altera’s Quartus.
  • Muntzing technique
  • EMI app note from TI
  • One way to reduce EMI is to slow down the slew rate. Dave talked about this and more in an older bypassing video.
  • Chris wants some kind of “Evernote for datasheets” that locally syncs datasheets over time. Does anyone know of a service like this?
  • The satellite that came back online (back in 2013).
  • Dave stayed up late for the European Mars landing but hoped for more pomp in the presentation. You can watch some of the archived videos here.
  • Chris recalls XKCD’s depressing comic about Spirit on Mars (695).

Comments

  1. Pete says

    November 11, 2016 at 9:26 am

    Feels good man

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqEddipbpkw

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